Living In the Shadow of a Sleeping Giant

Here's a nice landscape shot I took after climbing halfway up a dormant volcano that sits in the middle of Edinburgh. It affords you wonderful views of the park it is in (holyrood park) and the cliffs made of volcanic rock (the crags) as well as the city beyond. This park is unique because of the volcanic rock which made this a convenient place for the Geosciences to blossom. In fact Edinburgh is the birthplace of Geology as James Hutton, considered the father of Geology lived, worked, and eventually was buried here.

The dormant volcano itself has been dormant for millennia, and not in much danger of ever reawakening, but if it does... my apartment is far enough away that if something were to happen I would have enough time to run in panic to a certain demise.. oh wait, that's not so good.. Well that's the risk you run living in the shadow of a sleeping giant!

This is also one of the first shots where I tried to apply a tilt shift affect to it in post processing. I really liked the result which sparked an idea for a project that I have now been working on, on and off for several years. I have been debating whether to share that project here, and if so, how.. It is a project I eventually want to publish into a book.